Anne

FatCat

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I caught up on the first episode earlier - heartbreaking stuff about one mothers fight against the injustice of the hillsbrough disaster.
 
Watched the first two episodes just now on ITV Hub.

First episode was very, very hard to watch, for someone who wasn’t even alive at the time. I’m not sure how those who were involved could bare to watch it.
 
Can't bring myself to watch it. I get tearful watching the old news clips or interviews with family.
Absolute tragedy.
 
I remember sat at home watching it unfold on TV.
I was in Magaluf on holiday. Went into a bar to watch the game. At first we thought there was a fight going on
As it unfolded we realised we were watching something so terrible it was almost unbelievable. How can people set off out to watch a game of football and that happen 😪😪
 
I remember sat at home watching it unfold on TV.
Me too Norman. Watching Grandstand and I think Boro were away to QPR that day. I was absolutely numb.

I remember going to play football on the Sunday morning. I played in the Teesborough League and I vividly recall one of our older players saying in the changing rooms "I don't know why everyone's bothered, it's only scousers".

Honestly if I'd had a bit more about me I'd have ripped his head off.
 
Still angers me after all this time.
Police and stadium officials made mistakes and people died.
It's wrong but I can understand how that can happen.
But the cover up.
Treating innocent fans and distraught relatives like criminals.
Decades of unnecessary suffering just to save face.
No excuse for it.
Refuse to understand why that happened and how it was allowed.
And I will never buy the sun.
 
I still get flashbacks of being crushed in the alley outside the entrance to the Holgate End before the Oxford Utd game in 1967. I'd got there early assuming the turnstiles would open earlier than usual because of the big crowd expected that night but they didn't, and the impatient crowd behind me kept building up and pushing and surging so it was impossible to move and increasingly harder to breathe, it was only by luck no-one died or was seriously injured.
 
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If anyone went to graz will probably recall the gate being opened and it getting very hairy as the space ran out as more fans came in causing a crush outside.

Awful feeling.
 
I thought the first episode was well made but is a hard watch. I filled up a couple of times.
My lad is 16 now, footy mad and lives for match days. He’d be exactly like that for a semi final. Tragic to think how you can go to game and not come home.
 
I still get flashbacks of being crushed in the alley outside the entrance to the Holgate End before the Oxford Utd game in 1967. I'd got there early assuming the turnstiles would open earlier than usual because of the big crowd expected that night but they didn't, and the impatient crowd behind me kept building up and pushing and surging so it was impossible to move and increasingly harder to breathe, it was only by luck no-one died or was seriously injured.
Yes , I remember thinking the same thing years later. At the time I probably forgot about it because of the euphoria of the match. I got moved from the Holgate onto the cinder track quite early in the game. I lost contact with my older friends and didn't know how to properly get home after the match. Got in our house really late and got belted by our Dad for making him and our Mam worried. Didn't hurt as much as normal, again probably because I was still on cloud nine.
 
Watched the Hillsborough drama back in the 90's with Ricky Tomlinson. Found that so harrowing that I swore I would never watch anything connected to it again. But I know the story of Anne, and find it heart breaking that after all the campaigning she never got to see the justice she worked so hard for
 
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